Europe's Fastest Street Legal Car  

We've all done it, my mk1 golf was "stock" 230hp gti, classic insurnce

@@dannyhudson5115 No we haven't. I REALLY value my car and wouldn't put it at risk by fudging the insurance.

@@gottliebdee263 Don't crush it and you'll be good.

It's because he's not American.

Pushes it out - love it.

that there is one of them European models

Modifications are illegal in Sweden? That sounds amazing! No more being cut off by retarded 17 year olds in stupid looking ricer civics!

I stopped watching after 100 gram. (Grand)

What is with Sweden you guys are being stripped and raped of all your rights and freedom... fight back!

@@clay7182 I agree, its fkn communism

@@GodsBattleAx and feminism

+simon jones I think it`s normal for him when he takes someone for a trip with this car

Nonchalantly says 2000 to 2200 hp haha

Or... Probably just stoned

+beating2 And the little badge and steering wheel.

Yep, the fastest street legal car in Europe is a Chevrolet engine with a Ford 9" rear end. No surprise really.

beating2 and?

100% with you here, and the Audi lovers can be thankful he used a Audi shell for this :)

The 5cyl 2.2 with 4 weel drive would kick v8 asses!

Alex Krüger yeah sure. Thats why all the fastest drag cars use v8s.

nathan cufone cause normaly dragracers are delivered with a v8. Seach on youtube "Audi 1-100 in 1 second" and get stunned

Alex Krüger That one is with VR6 modified engine, not V8. Still not an Audi with R5.

You have to remember this was probably filmed 10-15 years ago. Nowadays people are pushing that kind of power through 4 bangers all over the planet now.

+Phendranaguardian It certainly does!!! Well said!

I think the most like me hoped to See an extremly tuned Audi 5cyl. And yes for raw Power USEngines are the Best . I thimk Europeans are to good for this Kind of Engineering. Europeans construct perfect efficient engines so that they get almost 400hp out of 2L. Americans are quite primitive the need about 6L. But if you make this big American engines perfect they are the Best because they are that big that they only can be strong

I think it depends on what sort of power you’re looking for, euro engines can make big power. But US engines can make big power cheaply.

@@ninoschier9528 Sorry that I'm like responding 6 years later but yeah, Euro engines are made to be small(in displacement) and efficient but that comes at a price which is reliability. You see, when you use forced induction to get any meaningful hp out of a small engine, that engine may get respectful hp but it's gonna be pushed to it's limit and revving the engine over 8,000 to reach peak hp and torque certainly isn't helping either. Speaking of torque, pretty much most, if not all, euro engines are DOHC which gives it better hp per liter but at the cost of low end torque, simplicity, size, and weight. Now as for most American engines found in muscle cars and trucks (with the exception of ford), they use pushrod engines which are different from DOHC engines since they don't make more hp per liter because of less vales per cylinder among other stuff but they make up for it with amazing low end torque which is what gets your car moving off the line fast forcefully. To make up for the less breathing room, manufacturers increase the displacement which naturally increases torque which also increases hp. Now the pros of having this type of engine is it's more reliable, can handle the increased power from forced induction due to having peak power at low rpm (usually between 1500 and 4000) and higher displacement, it's physically smaller despite having higher displacement, it's lighter as well (look up the engine weight of any modern muscle car or pickup truck and compare it to any "small" 4 cylinder or 6 cylinder engines from Europe), and the engine isn't ever intensely stressed to make hp and torque. So both DOHC and pushrod engines each have their uses; DOHC engines are great for actual racing on a track where torque isn't really required and pushrod engines are great for towing applications where having hp and torque early at the rev range can really make your vehicle last hundreds of thousands of miles(or km) and drag racing where having low down power and enormous untapped power can make drag cars the fastest cars on the planet as shown on this video here. Though to be fair to Europeans, these drag cars would PROBABLY be tied with a Bugatti in a drag race on a NORMAL street since drag cars, muscle cars, etc. aren't known for having traction and most Euro cars have amazing traction with clever engineering. Sorry for making this extremely long but I wanted to give a proper explanation for both types of engines and give it's pros and cons for both.

+Impossibru Ehmmmm.....becouse of the power! ;-)

DrInsane76 But a V8 doesnt belong into an Audi Coupe, the heart of it is a 5 cylinder.

+Impossibru I know i know but its all about power and fast 1/4 mile time and the V8 is the best hart otherwise it would still be in i quess.

+DrInsane76 well said mate.

+Impossibru , because some engines are just to small and rubbish :P

Marc-Andre Ouellette Good.

+NegativeNumbers427 Really, who is Larson?

mattmopar440 No one is denying his record.

+mattmopar440 Learn to read, dumbass.

I agree this episode is 2005 I think and this is about europe

+GODOFHELLFIRE3 I like how you typed that, conveys his voice very well :D ps. and I bring you... Fire

+ImperatorAsus And on that bombshell

StL ChuckO exactly *laughs in 2000bhp Lambo*

@@GewelReal laughs in 10,000 hp top fuel dragster

+Vitiuxa "Stone" is a British weight unit. Also American people are 100+ pounded.

+Nanorisk stoned = high (usually refers to cannabis) 12 high passengers is what he's getting at.

DildorTheDecent Com'on, don't spoil that :)

Nanorisk get rekt

DildorTheDecent kudos for taking jokes seriously.

+james hamilton That Bentley build didn't exist at the time this video was recorded.

+-T-X-M- Well I wouldn't call it shit, I doubt he could reach anything close to that speed if it wasn't for the engine. If it's his car, he does what he wants.

-T-X-M- There's nothing wrong with that. People like you shouldn't be called car enthusiasts, because a true car enthusiast appreciates all builds. There is no rule that says you have to keep the engine German if you own a German car, not grow some bollocks and get on with your life.

+Emilios Gregoriou Well on my side (I´am German) I dont really mind the engine swap neither do I find the american V8 bad. (If something is wrong with the grammer I used I appreciate a correction, wanna get better in english ^^)

+-T-X-M- The quickest drag cars all run American V8s or engines based on their design. What do you think top-fuel dragsters use? Any guesses?

+-T-X-M- you people make me fucking cringe.

BMW X. That's stupid as hell

In Hong Kong you cant even change parts of your car everything must be in stock or you need to apply a form about changing any parts of your car and most of the time they will reject your form and need you to put the stock parts back in sry for bad english

***** nope all must be registered by government

Means Supra is your only decision

BMW X. Really!!!.....I put a 2.0 twin cam from a fiat supermirifory in a Austin A30 for a customer some years ago....other than register the cars new engine size on the log book, thats it in the UK...

+Exekution cro Motorhomes / RVs.

+hpod3sx And this Audi was 10 years ago...

chefgiovanni its amazing

He is amazing. Audi is over rated and overpriced, just like BMW.

+Kneedragon1962 Red Victor (the version mentioned in this video) and this "Audi" both still retain their steel bodies.

+NegativeNumbers427 Ok... There's some contest in the 'states, where they drive from track to track and pull a small trailer. The cars are legal, or at least they should be. But they're like funny cars... They're a lightweight 'glass body that flips up as one piece...

Kneedragon1962 Dragweek. Good watch. Starts again in October. Point is. At the time of recording, this car was one of the quickest, along with Red Victor. Both had Steel bodies. But this was all a few years ago. Things have become way more competitive over the years, so naturally people would use lighter parts, etc. Plus there's the ease of use with fibreglass: taking the panels off for maintenence, or making replacement panels instead of having to find another panel, cut it, weld it, and all that crap.

NegativeNumbers427 I can see good reasons to do it, on a competition vehicle, but it complicates the business of being a spectator. 8-)

This was filmed in 2005, I believe.

Pretty much anything with indicators and number plates is road legal in the UK.

+Martin K. Yes!

yes inline 5 turbo is the best. then the vr6 2.9. I like that more than the R32 motor.

+Billy Joe No, 8 is better(more) than 5, no replacement for displacement. i would not call it an audi with it having a chevy powerplant, but sbc BBC will always make more hp, part-for-par,t than something half their size. Small motors take a lot more to get high power, not to mention torque.

+Billy Joe I like spending all my money on gasoline, if you couldn't tell.

+Martin K. So an R8 is not an Audi you say?

Because there is so little grip in the rain the tyres spin up way into the gears, causing higher speed crashes

+Rabarberss Funkers It is an audi.. BODY.. Sure is.. I am also quite sure the title for the car also says audi... Man everyone is hating on the car.. why?

+Rabarberss Funkers Ford used a Volvo engine in some of its cars, including the Focus ST and RS. That doesnt make those cars any less Ford-ish...

+Craig Werner Just alot of pissy ass euros.

Alexander Rahl I'm European and I don't mind, so your argument is invalid.

+Craig Werner I surprise it's like a heart transplant u take the most German thing of all the engine and make it American to some people that's scandalous . to others its just a means to an end its all just opinions at end of the day as cars are just objects no life or sole only materials and what emotions we project onto them

as long as the car passes the safety check, and the engine puts out the correct emissions, you can do what you want lol the UK is quite strict lol

@@dubbeh you are dumb in Europe not legal .. Only UK can be like this.

@@MakeSh00t you are dumb, cause you pointed out something i was saying lol you just dont understand

@@MakeSh00t last time I looked UK is part of Europe.

It has a big ol' V8

The Car Guy Not this one the one the guy that mentioned 5 cylinder, it reach 325 kmh with little tuning

Not in a 1/4 mile.

DBGMLV no just the top speed

193mph

and its the fastest street legal car in the UK. No way this would be even close to street legal here in germany. the street legal parts stops at the wing, height, exhaust, rollcage, engine... pretty much everything besides the steering wheel is hella illegal.

Street legal Red Victor 3 in GB in 2019: 5.95@419 kph(260 mph) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_0An-lpPXws.html&ab_channel=RedVictorRacing

+crazyjr This video predates those. This orginally aired a decade ago.

+TUNGUSKA HD Someone who wanted to run a mid 7-second quarter mile?

foolhunter lol. NO problem for a 2.2 l. With a big turbo

Your timing is off. This video was originally shot and shown 10+ years ago.

Fucking*

+keensweep Yes and no.. Drag race cars race on "slicks" tires without tread.. But street tires without a lot of tread can be either slippery or high traction depending on the compound of the tire and the type of surface you are on. Concrete with rubber and "bald" tires is high traction, bald tires on hot asphalt tends to be low traction because the surface has oils on it from the surface itself.

+kayto101racer Pretty sure they did a couple of times back in the day during competition. Wouldn't have been documented. RU-vid wasn't that big at the time.

NegativeNumbers427 ahh i didnt know that thanks.

+kayto101racer Dont need to, this one runs 7.8 and Victor 3 ran 6.2 in 2014 and is chasing sub 5 sec now. So... it wont be a race but humiliation.

Dmitri Felbinger You've got your dates mixed up. This video, along with the Victor mentioned, were comparable at the time of recording.

+Dmitri Felbinger And I can't respond you one of your other comments. This is a "throwback thursday" video, pulled from old archives of videos taken many years ago.